The only people at any real risk with COVID-19 are the extremely old(over here the median age of death is older than life expectancy) and extremely vulnerable. The same groups who are at high risk with just about any illness, even regular flus. I have no idea how anyone can still believe in this lockdown nonsense. 

People still believe is that their jobs depend on the lie, and the constant brainwashing and propaganda from the media.
I posted an article earlier that the Bill and Malinda Gates Foundation donated millions of dollars to the media to
promote the false narrative.
People have been conditioned from grade school that if is on TV it has to be true. I heard that said in the 1950's.
Also, there is lots of money involved.  

I think that Trump knows/knew that his enemies totally control the people through the mainstream media, therefore, he had to go along with the hoax and turn it against them. You can clearly see it in the Biden adds where they say that Trump did not act quick enough and was inept in handling it. Trump on the other hand did many things that he can show to disprove their narrative, like sending the hospital ship to New York, which NY never used, and closing travel to China and telling people that he was using Hydroxychloroquine and not wearing a mask.

The same with the riots, he offered to send the National Guard and other measures, but the governors refused. The media was setting him up with the riots as a racists and inept, and he turned it on them. He appears to be very wise, but, it's politics and politics takes years to reveal itself.